Well my first thought Marius is why you feel a need for a division
between scientific and "artistic"?
Much of web design, website creation, development, whatever you want
to call it, I would much more closely describe as something more akin
to industrial and or product design, where much more than what
happens on the server needs to be addresses.
User-centred design for example starts with lots of study with the
userbase in order to discern what people would be expecting from the
organisation or campaign and their website. This is a starting point
for a website and has nothing to do with marketing and everything to
do with creating a useful, usable and successful site.
But this is neither design or "scientific", (although there are
things being measured and described here).
As I mentioned earlier, the concepts underpinning web development and
design (should I try to coin a new term of web creator?) are not new
or time sensitive. HTML 4 and XHTML have been around for many years
and will be around for the next 5 for sure and any coder worth hi
salt has already started to look at HTML 5 and XHTML 2 and trying to
understand how to use it.
User-centred design has been around for decades nd will continue to o
so.
Apache isn't a new thing and JS and PHP are long in the tooth
servers aren't going away and people still have expectations at the
HCI (Human Computer Interface) which may look a little different, but
remain essentially unchanged for the last decade at least.
So, to reiterate, any MA course should provide the tools to "fish"
rather than the fish itself and should not allow itself to be
providing significant am amounts of training in concepts that will
easily age.
Joe
On Jun 12 2008, at 22:36, Marius Milcher wrote:
I'm studying BSc Business Information Technology at London South
Bank University. It has been around for nearly 10 years now. There
is an MSc available too...[1]
At an undergraduate level we study, at length, Systems Analysis,
Information Architecture , Dynamic Programming languages (ASP, PHP)
alongside Usability and HCI.
An initial question I have, with regard to an MA in Web
Development, is whether a scientific approach should be taken (in
the form of an MSc) or whether a an artistic/design approach should
be taken (in the form of an MA).
Personally, if dealing with web 'development' then a scientific
approach would be desired. I think this might be a matter of debate
though, given the current and ever evolving landscape of web
development and the fact is is still an emerging discipline in many
respects, as has been mentioned regarding standards.
I think that the subject of Web Development is an extremely
exciting one and one and one that I could be persuaded to pursue.
However, I feel, given its rapid evolution and emergence, any
course structure that is agreed upon could potentially be outdated
by the time it comes to teaching it...
Maybe in true spirit of the collaborative nature of Web 2.0 this
course could be structured and administered through wikis and
taught in an open-source way... Given the webs emergence from
academia. But that I fear, is maybe a pipe-dream...
Thoughts??
Regards,
Marius Milcher
[1] LSBU BIT Course info
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcim/progs/bit/
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